| Show UTAHWORLD The Salt Lake Tribune Blacks still rrotwoter: Martin Luther King Jr Day will be commemorated in Utah by numerous organizations which will celebrate King's causes of civil rights and equality with awards music and dance Events include: living in Utah CHARLIE RIEDELiWAHOCIaledPnms Judith Steinberg enter a campaign event Howard and Dean Sunday in Davenport Iowa Candidates make final pitch in Iowa Continued from Al John Kerry of Sen Massa- chusetts campaigned with the Green Beret he rescued under fire in Vietnam Sen John Edwards of North Carolina flew across the state pressing his core theme that America is a nation divided by class and race By the end of the day the candidates had delivered 17 speeches in 11 cities from Sioux City in the west to Davenport in the east Even as they sent several thousand supporters to knock on doors and call undecided voters the Democratic contenders were pouring unprecedented sums into television advertising according to an analysis conducted for the Los Angeles Times In just seven days last week former Vermont Gov Dean spent $530000 on television in Iowa On Sunday the race was roiled by an Iowa Poll showing the four closely bunched in a surprising order: Kerry on top with 26 percent followed by Edwards at 23 percent Dean at 20 percent and Gephardt at 18 percent The 8 percentage point spread from first to fourth is within the poll's margin of error of 4 points For months Dean and Gephardt were seen as the two main competitors here with Kerry and Edwards perceived as distant also-ran- s But the dynamic abruptly shifted over the past week as Iowans appeared to step back and give the field a final once-ove- r The poll conducted by The Des Moines Register was at best an educated guess at what might happen tonight when more than 100000 Iowans are expected to gather in church basements high school gymnasiums American Legion halls and other public settings to begin the process of picking the Democrat who will face President Bush in November Although gone from the state for much of the day Dean was hardly invisible in Iowa His image beamed from TVs part of an advertising blitz that has shattered records for a presidential fmm Al in Ogden "When you start looking at more substantive things not to downplay food and grooming it really multiplies and really becomes more complex" he says "You start to talk about acquiring loans negotiating for property trying to find some sense of place within the power infrastructure And there are unintentional consequences when you move to that level Either they know and are deliberate about subjugating the relationship they create or it is benign a benign neglect" On Martin Luther King Jr Day 2004 — 39 years after civil rights marchers in Selma transfixed the nation — how welcoming is Utah? For starters 89 percent of the people still look like Pat Boone or Doris Day "It's difficult to live in Utah for — if many only for the lack of community there" says Christopher Villa an assistant vice president at CaliState University-Northridg- e fornia who until four years ago recruited minority graduate students for the University of African-American- f?:1tt tto--- 1 p'14 7ry6-1-4 mii:j'0t--- - ( : - I age of everyone in the United States is 353 Utah's overall median age is 271 years Those figures say a lot about how short a time blacks have been in Utah but the future is brightening Since 1990 according to the 2000 US census the median household income for the state's blacks grew nearly 32 percent when adjusted for inflation — more than double the growth rate of the Utah median "One of the fundamental challenges is trying to find a niche" Crawford says "Trying to find a place where not only you matter but you are able to make a contribution to the community in which you engage don't know of a single ethnic professional who has not had to grapple with that" Meanwhile Utah continues to resist the passage of a hate crimes law with teeth The current version on the books is unenforceable prosecutors say because the definition of minority : liLI LI R vflmtn 015RVICIIITI 1 1- 1 0- tt trt '4 ' ti f4 :AM 114 514011:110E454 ttttII '1 14 0 I 1 k tt11 1 tir1 "IN lt I L400"344 IN etilitrits$ - t (77----- 1 gburtonar sitribcom i - it1- Preview Mon Jan 19th 10 Enrichuns 0 am tto lour ( ) a 4pm OLS011 LIUCTIOIJECEIS hi Callora:63110r175 wwwsalesandauctioncom - ' for your tat it ' I HOME AWAY FROM HOME i IVt0 c 1 ' k - )1' Located near Salt Lake City Beautiful Starvation Lake the Clintah Mountain Range Ashley National Forest Lakes and Ski Resorts Fishing Hunting Camping Boating Snowmobiling and Wildlife 1 onwards "1 1"--11"---- ? r 1 "Gorgeous views of five different mountain ranges" i 4J I os- - 41 14 -- f 1 -- i-- - 3111it PI - ' 1 - k1 0 r-Tr - 1 TI 1 I 1 ( - 03k ir soy 1 3 11- - A VratitiMit Price Includes: 25 acre lot $17950 minimum value 34 x 24 all wood ranch style structure with high vaulted ceiling and 8x12 covered porch 2 bedrooms loft kitchen bath living area carpet vinyl completely finished Additional porches decks fireplaces etc also available c 4- - 4 -- ! ror tr 1 t i J Ccom"''"--744Y- " Hamilton Park 206 L Winchemer (6400 S) Murray S) Murray 1 J 1 vs 1 --- West Africa in which women gather in the moonlight to create music and sing songs about life's joys and sorrows Tickets are free but must be picked up in advance Call 7100 or Ghana IC 8 Enco Lathe Injector Testers Compressor Gantry Crane Dynamometer Machine Parts Air Jacks Shop Machines Glass Beading Machine GMC Service Truck Hyster Forklift ----'' - all female ADAAWE The group Adaawe will perform today at 6:30 pm at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah The group creates music through drum and voice drawing on the Adaawe tradition of 1 Major 'engine rebuilder and Transmission Rebuilder Production Machine Valve Grinder Specialized Tooling-Hea- d -- - Jc- p- i4i-- t IPTif - It 3065 Free 20TH AT 1 0AM 2466 SOUTH 2570 WEST SLC ----k iA pIN I speech Call TuEs JAN 4t' ') Have a Dream" DIESEL POWER SYSTEMS ( v "I OWNER CLOSING DOORS AFTER 31 YEARS 1 tit 1 of King's AUCTION - 1 CANDLELIGHT VIGIL Brigham Young Universitys Valk of Life" candlelight program will begin today at 6 pm at the Carillon Bell Tower on the Provo campus Musical groups MILK One Voice and the Black Student Union Choir will perform There will also be a recitation d - I c COMMUNITY CELEBRATION Murray City's From Dream to Reality" program tonight will feature gospel ad patriotic pieces performed by the Murray High School a cappella choir with guest performers Mike! Hansen and Abe Mills of Jericho Road B Murphy will host the event Activities begin at 7 pm in the Murray High School auditorium 5440 S State St Call Free 4r s-- --- twoplecp 11 col- one-to-on- - rare nizable black faces in Utah belongs to Byron Russell a Zions Bank executive who appears on television commercials for the bank Russell who moved to Utah from Washington DC in 1992 has found it hard to blend in not that he's trying At the health spa he's one of a handful of blacks He doesn't run into black clerks at the corner grocer He can go days without bumping into another black at work When he is recognized at the gym as "that guy on television" most people want to know about his acting career "And then it hits them — 'Oh wow you are a banker' " Russell says "And they get kind of excited" Russell is one of the 08 percent of Utahns who are black And at 43 he's not exactly representative The average age of black Utalms is 25 years — 27 for males and 22 for females The average y ' The film is a players — one of the few recog- was one of caution" Villa says "Lots of it is anecdotal and frankly has to do with a perception of institutional racism" The state's predominant faith The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints didn't grant blacks religious equality until 1978 Negative perceptions about Utah are "unfortunate because during my interaction with folks e who are LDS at least on a and group setting I didn't feel that" Villa says "I'm not bashing Utah I'm saying it's really a good place to live but you have to feel comfortable there?' It doesn't help that Utah was the last state in the union to officially honor Martin Luther King Jr with a state holiday For years Beehive State lawmakers hemmed and hawed opting instead to designate the holiday "Human Rights Day" because some legislators argued King didn't deserve ennobling "I go outside the state and people say 'What in the world are you doing in Utah?' " says Bonnie Dew director of the state Office of Black Affairs who moved here 18 years ago from the San Francisco Bay "But people who come to Utah to ski to the Olympics they are just blown away by what Utah has to offer I see that negative perception changing" Aside from an assortment of sports figures — mostly Jazz His final barrage pushed Dean's spending in the state to $33 million by all indications a record Dean has opted out of the public campaign finance system which impoSes caps on how much candidates can spend in each contest Kerry who has also opted out of the system spent $458000 on television in Iowa last week pushing his total to $273 million Gephardt matched Kerry spending $461000 in the week before the vote — also a significant increase from the roughly $294000 he spent the first week of January The final push put Gephardt's total at $234 Edwards lagged significantly in his television investment: He spent $282000 last week raising his total to $17 million overall :411 munity on Martha's Vineyard glimpse into the world of leges and the students' reaction contest f' FREE FILM The Sundance Film Festival will host a community screening of "A Place of Our Own" by documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson detailing his experiences during 40 summers spent on the shores of Oak Bluffs a resort com- Utah t groups that would be protected under the law is too vague So in 1998 when a man burned a wooden cross in the Sugar House yard of an interracial couple the district attorney did not press charges Instead federal prosecutors filed the case under the Fair Housing Act But Utah's cultural climate is warming The majority is more willing than it was 30 years ago to listen and debate issues important to the minority Crawford says "What you have now is a system while it mav not be as responsive as community leaders would like it to be you do find a level of opportunity to challenge the system" he says Substantive change is harder In 1983 President Reagan signed the bill that established the first Martin Luther King Jr national holiday but for 17 more years the debate in Utah centered on two issues: whether adding a paid state holiday would be too costly and whether King deserved recognition Utah's second black state legislator Terry Williams regularly urged his colleagues to follow Reagan's lead On Williams' final attempt in 1986 Utah lawmakers instead gave the state Human Rights Day but not before one of them refused to greet King's widow Coretta Scott King when she addressed the House and Senate "It's shameful to think we had perceptions like that" Dew says "It is not just a time for blacks it is a time for everyone to pause and think and value the diversity that America has to offer and recognize Dr King's message" Utah's third black lawmaker Rep Duane Bourdeaux Lake City finally pushed a Martin Luthet King Jr Day bill through the Legislature in 2000 "Utah is getting better" Crawford says "But for me it's always a case of 'OK where do I fit in the scheme of things?' It's not an easy thing to answer It's a very fluid answer" blacks The screening is today 230 pm at Broadway Theatre M 1 300 South The screene basis ng is free on a MEMORIAL LUNCHEON The Spit Lake branch of the NAACP hosts the 21st annual Dr Martin Luther King Jr memorial luncheon today at noon at the little America Hotel 500 S Main St Tickets are $40: $25 for children 17 years or younger Keynote speaker is Sharee M Freeman director of the community relations service in the US Department of Justice Third District Juvenile Court Judge Andrew Valdez will receive the 2004 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Award Eva Sexton a member of Calvary Baptist Church who has raised 12 foster children of various ethnic groups will receive the NAACP's Rosa Parks Award Tickets are available at the door For more information call the NAACP at s "I went to many black A7 Jnuary 19 2004 King Day celebrations face indignities CAmtinued Monday IN! 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